The richest man in India spent $120 million on a wedding. I agree with you that we should stop spending money on useless shit and taxing billionaires will help achieve our goal of not spending money on useless shit.
$120m, how much is that? Wouldn't that be roughly as much as Canadians spent on single-use coffee cups, styrofoam burger boxes etc in the last week or two?
We should stop spending tax payer money on useless shit and being wasteful with it. People are free to spend their own money however they wish.
You seem to not like the idea that a rich person spent money, but that’s the way for the money to get out to other people who are not billionaires. Some of that $120m undoubtedly went to pay musicians, chefs, cooks, florists, security guards, waitstaff, custodians, etc, etc, etc. If that wedding didn’t happen, those people probably would have missed out on their biggest pay day of the year.
Anyone who think billionaires have too much, should be happy when they see billionaires spend excessively, as it means that wealth is getting spread around. People who want some of it can start, or work for, businesses that billionaires would want to spend money with.
skhunted|1 year ago
Arnt|1 year ago
al_borland|1 year ago
You seem to not like the idea that a rich person spent money, but that’s the way for the money to get out to other people who are not billionaires. Some of that $120m undoubtedly went to pay musicians, chefs, cooks, florists, security guards, waitstaff, custodians, etc, etc, etc. If that wedding didn’t happen, those people probably would have missed out on their biggest pay day of the year.
Anyone who think billionaires have too much, should be happy when they see billionaires spend excessively, as it means that wealth is getting spread around. People who want some of it can start, or work for, businesses that billionaires would want to spend money with.
throwaway11460|1 year ago
These are 100-billion dollar industries. We would save much more than by taxing billionaires.
wryoak|1 year ago